Occurrence of aflatoxins in selected processed foods from Pakistan

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 8324-8337

  Mushtaq, Muhammad ^a   Sultana, Bushra ^a   Anwar, Farooq ^b   Khan, Muhammad Zargham ^a   Ashrafuzzaman, Muhammad ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SARGODHA   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Aflatoxins contamination; Cereals based products; Effective recovery; HPLC; Immunoaffinity clean up

Indexed keywords

ACETONITRILE; AFLATOXIN; AFLATOXIN B1; AFLATOXIN B2; AFLATOXIN G1; AFLATOXIN G2; WATER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BABY FOOD; EXTRACTION; FLOUR; FLUORESCENCE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD PROCESSING; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PAKISTAN; PEANUT; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; RICE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHEAT; ADULT; ANALYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFANT; REVERSED PHASE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AFLATOXINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, REVERSE-PHASE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; LIMIT OF DETECTION; PAKISTAN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84864329553     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms13078324     Document Type: Article

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